Pentagon: US to look at own role in Afghan graft

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining...

Afghan police are weak link in security force

KABUL — Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan’s 93,000-member police force is the...

Russia’s Gorbachev considers political comeback

MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious...

Top model found hanged in Paris apartment

PARIS — A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and...

Afghan president sworn in to second 5-year term

KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country’s security forces should take the lead...

John Buonomo jailed for stealing coins from copiers

For the chump change he was caught on camera tapping from copiers and the cash he stole from struggling taxpayers...

Multiple arrests in German soccer corruption probe

FRANKFURT — German police have arrested an undisclosed number of people suspected of fixing matches in major...

La. man arrested in alleged Ponzi scheme

AMITE, La. — A Louisiana businessman was arrested today on charges he engaged in a Ponzi scheme that cost...

Clinton urges Afghan leader to institute reform

KABUL — Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first trip to Afghanistan as U.S. secretary of state, said Wednesday...

Afghans on hold, awaiting Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama decisions

KABUL — Its protracted presidential election has finally been decided, but Afghanistan is on hold. President...

Russian rappers groove with Putin

MOSCOW — Putin in da house? Da! He’s tracked Siberian tigers wearing military camouflage, sat in the...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Specific demands will accompany US help

WASHINGTON — The United States is limiting its goals in Afghanistan and demanding better accountability from...

Former Springfield shelter chief in trouble again

SPRINGFIELD — The former head of a Springfield homeless shelter, who served time for stealing thousands...

Ex-partner of Boston wind exec charged

The Massachusetts native who helped found controversial wind-energy developers Cape Wind and First Wind expressed...

Corruption lands ex-Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson 13 years

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Prosecutors called a former Louisiana congressman’s corruption the most extensive...